Illinois · Nonprofit
LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE
LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,153,905 to it, the largest being CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ($265,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Love Unity & Values Institute does
Mission
THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS to inspire hope and empower underserved youth with economic opportunities, while building resiliency and social-emotional competencies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Journey to My Better Self Entrepreneurship Program (J2MBS-EP) is a program for youth and young adults, ages 16 to 24, interested in entrepreneurship. The program helps them learn career development and explore the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Through role-playing, modeling, reflective exercises, and small group discussions, participants learn how to put into action and practice life-enhancing skills to help them create the type of life they desire and dream of. Students will create a product that will be sold in pop-up stores and kiosks. With a focus on literacy through writing, a comprehensive learning program has been designed to encourage students to ask questions, read and develop meaningful ways to research answers and increase their capacity to communicate their findings. For the last two years, J2MBS-EP students have created live Christmas wreaths, which they source, market, manufacture, and sell. Called Wreaths of LUV, students operate pop-up stores and kiosks to introduce their wreaths to the public. Their wreaths were sold in Macy's on State Street and have adorned light posts in the Woodlawn, Washington Park, and Kenwood neighborhoods.The Journey to My Better…
$1,346,600 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,346,600.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $217k to $817k (+277%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 58% · 2021 32% · 2022 48% · 2023 74% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Andrew Wells
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $170k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
56% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 50% · 2020 51% · 2021 26% · 2022 38% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
43% of LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $520k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE?
- LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,153,905 to it, the largest being CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ($265,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,153,905 in grants to LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE?
- CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN is the largest funder on record, with $265,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing